Daughter's heartbreaking court statement on dad's murder of mum

When Rachel Goodbun’s father told her he wanted to shoot her mother, she dismissed the comment and said, “I need you to be my Dad and stop talking like that.”

But Keith Goodbun ignored her and an AVO when four months later he murdered Molly Goodbun, his wife of 40 years, with an unregistered .22 calibre rifle.

Today in the NSW Supreme Court his daughter said she often thought about her mother’s final moments, asking, “did she understand the person she had spent a lifetime loving, wanted to see her dead? I hope not.”

Keith Goodbun will be sentenced over the murder on July 4. Picture: 9NEWS (9NEWS)

In a heartbreaking victim impact statement read on her behalf by a sobbing relative, Ms Goodbun said her mother loved her father with everything she had, but knew she had to make changes after he turned to alcohol and anti-depressants to deal with chronic pain.

“She was ready to see herself in a new phase in her life," the statement said.

In October 2016, he forced his way into the home and after a struggle, shot her in the chest.